Stories
- Article
Eugenics and the welfare state
Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.
- Article
Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
- Long read
Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
- Article
Intelligence testing, race and eugenics
Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Lecture Slides and Index Cards
Date: 1946 - 2001Reference: PP/WRO/C/4Part of: Professor Oliver Wrong- Books
- Online
Managing diabetes, managing medicine : chronic disease and clinical bureaucracy in post-war Britain / Martin D Moore.
Moore, Martin D.Date: 2019- Books
Social class and mental illness in Northern Europe / edited by Petteri Pietikäinen and Jesper Vaczy Kragh.
Date: 2020- Archives and manuscripts
Papers mainly relating to childhood cancer study
Date: c.1960s-1990sReference: PP/AMS/N.1/6Part of: Alice Stewart (1906-2002)- Books
Widening horizons in medical education : a study of the teaching of social and environmental factors in medicine 1945-1946 / a report of the Joint Committee of the Association of American Medical Colleges and the American Association of Medical Social Workers.
Date: 1948